Their Finest Hour

[anancientrace]

I only saw a bit of it - BBC 3 or 4 - an hour long programme on the ordinary British civilian men and women making airplanes and armaments for the Second World War but it impressed me. They were targets for bombs, and many killed but they went right back to work. Pyschological damage and all!

The dedication and industry. There are some still alive with their memories and they were gracious enough to share. So I will consider all people of that age as possible war heroes and argue just as much with those that annoy me but they may get extra credit for their possible pasts.

As a youngster I wasn't interested in my foster families experiences except in a general and "Hotspur comic type heroics". Too late to ask them now.

And I am aged now - so anyone want to ask me what I did in the Second War? Know this - I wasn't that old!

That generation before me came to mind just now when Neville Chamberlain's unpopularity was mentioned in connection with the present day in politics.

Hyperbole. Selfish hyperbole by politicians that can see themselves losing their meal ticket at the next election. Who to blame?

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Did Britain have agoraphobics and people laid up for years with back ache back then? I think I know the answer - but it's funny when you think that they perhaps had more to be phobic about and didn't have the technology and machinery we have now to do all the heavy lifting.

I blame the blame culture, soft politics and greedy individuals.

I love war stories. My Grandma tells a good one about rations. She had twin babies and so each got rations of butter. She lived at the time with her mother-in-law who said 'we'll eat the best butter and the twins can have the margarine" Grandma told her in no uncertain terms that that wasn't going to be happening. She still goes on about it 60 years later....